FYI. We'd like to solicit feedback on this draft.
The model spec'd in this uses SRV RRs mapped to the @domain part of an
email address to discover the submission servers associated with that mail
domain. It does not attempt to locate the servers associated with a
specific subnet, servers in other mail domains, retrieval servers, or
anything else. Instead, it is restricted to servers associated with a
specific mail domain in the theory that those are the servers that the
user is authorized to use (and has an account for, etc).
--
Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/
Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
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Title : Message-Submission SRV Resource Record
Author(s) : E. Hall, J. Klensin
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Pages : 11
Date : 2003-6-18
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